Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website
>I'll take a couple of people with a clue over a hundred _looking_ for a clue any day. It will be just as I said earlier - the userland will consist of the devs and a bunch of fanboys, no one will know the OS and will just view it as "another one". This whole conversation and all the emails in it just proves OI is not ready to be a real OS. Maybe in 10 years after it matures I will give it another go. Like things stand, it's headed in the OpenBSD path. All the best. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website
> That attitude is why OpenBSD will continue to exist on the periphery of > the technology space, in spite of all the great tools they are sitting on. > > > Precisely. And it looks like OI people want to go the same path. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website
If you are worried about resources, step 1 would be to get rid of direct downloads. Or you get the following: casual user downloads, casual user runs, casual user finds problem, casual user doesn't have forums to get help, casual user leave. 1 download worth of bandwidth wasted. And that's the main source of bandwidth, users trying it out. There is nothing bad about having forums and mailing lists. Looking at the casual user, not that many want to subscribe and send emails and wait forever. I keep bringing casual user, because I seriously doubt at this point anyone is going to use OI for production, esp. with great and mature open source alternatives like FreeBSD out there. If you don't have the adequate support (i.e. at least forums and a NON-outdated wiki), then you will drive many potential users away and will become "just another distro on distrowatch" whose users are the devs and a handful fanboys. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website
Indeed. It has always been my goal to make UNIX more end-user friendly. Linux only got so popular because of all the newbie-friendly communities and installers. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help with website
Keep in mind that the current wiki is outdated and disorganized. I offered to help with it, but got no reply and still have no wiki account. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
[OpenIndiana-discuss] i18n add languages
Since you are further moving away from Oracle, will it be possible to start localizing OpenIndiana in more languages than those the default install provides? Gnome is already translated in most, so if you implement something like Pootle to get the rest translated it shouldn't take much time. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
